terror. >> they don't teach us in the academy how to protect your family when there's a maniac that wants to kill your children. >> pelley: for the first time, l.a. police officers targeted by christopher dorner tell their stories. john miller has the interviews. what drove the newtown shooter to kill? bob orr has the latest clues. as his girlfriend is laid to rest, south africa runner oscar pistorius tells the court he can't imagine why he's been charged with her murder. and women revolt against a culture of rape. holy williams in india with the protests rocking the world's largest democracy. >> how did you have the courage to speak out?

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we could only imagine what los angeles police officers and their families were going through as they were being targeted by a fired cop out for revenge. well, today we found out as they told their stories. the former officer, christopher dorner, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound one week tonight, his body recovered from the ruins of a burned-out cabin in san bernadino where he holed up. over ten days dorner allegedly killed four people including two law enforcement officers. he was prepared to kill more. john miller spoke to two of them. >> i got the phone call. and the first thing i did was call and get ahold of the kids to find out where they all were. >> reporter: captain phil tingirides and his wife were on christopher dorner's hit list

published on his facebook page. captain tingirides was on the board that fired dorner for falsely accusing another officer of brutality. >> they don't teach us in the academy how to protect your family when there's a maniac that wants to kill your children. >> once we got home we explained to the kids as best we could that there was a threat but we had to be strong. we had to put up the front that everything is good. you're protected here. >> reporter: what was it like at home? >> i didn't sleep that night. we had two officers posted in our backyard. every 20, 25 minutes i just get up and look out my window. there they were standing tall with their gun in hand and their helmet on. and they never slept. >> reporter: dorner's rampage began with the murder of monica kwan and her financee in a parked car. kwan's father is a retired l.a.p.d. captain who represented dorner at the departmental hearing. >> it didn't take much training to be able to walk up to two

unsuspecting people and kill them there. >> reporter: do you ever wonder or think of what if he had had the opportunity right then, would the story not have been about kwan? would it have been about the tingirides. >> we thought about that. i looked at my daughter walking out to the car like, you know, miss kwan and just the thought of even the possibility of that happening really hit home for us. very difficult. >> this experience brought our family very close together. this experience gave me the ability to have more understanding from a very real perspective of what people in this community go through and how they live everyday. >> reporter: that's a community that has been under the gun for some time with problems with crime. but when the tingirides were feeling under the gun the community rallied behind them. scott, a very unusual offer to protect the tingirides' family came from an unlikely place: the

feared bounty hunters gang. they declined the offer but i think they liked the sentiment. >> pelley: did the tingirides ever have any reason to believe that dorner actually approached their home or their family? >> oh, i think they did. there was a sighting of a man believed to be dorner by one of their neighbors who said he was scoping out the neighborhood and gave some... engaged them in conversation and was trying to get information. that also happened at the residence of the other captain who sat on the board and several other potential targets. >> pelley: john miller in our los angeles news room, great interview, john, thank you very much. last night on this broadcast, correspondent bob orr broke the story that adam lanza, the killer at sandy hook elementary school had an obsession with a mass murder that had occurred the year before. later in the evening, the hartford counternewspaper added to that, reporting that investigators found clippings in lanza's home about the earlier killing. it was in december that lanza killed his mother, 20 first graders and six members of the

school staff before killing himself. bob orr is back tonight with more details on the motive. >> reporter: evidence recovered from adam lanza's home reveals he had collected information about another notorious killer. sources say material about norwegian mass murderer anders breivik was found in one of lanza's rooms. breivik killed 77 people in 2011 in an attack in norway. now police are pursuing a theory that lanza viewed himself as being in direct competition with breivik. sources say lanza attacked nearby sandy hook elementary school because it was an easy target with a large number of people. investigators believe a rapid police response forced lanza to take his own life and end the massacre earlier than intended. hundreds of rounds of unspent ammunition were found with lanza. connecticut state police strongly deny they've established any hard connection between lanza and breivik and

say any reports about a possible motive are premature. in a statement, lieutenant paul vance said the unfortunate origin of unsubstantiated details of this case are both hurtful and many times inaccurate. but two officials who have been briefed on the investigation say connecticut officials have privately indicated they believe lanza was obsessed with breivik. it's also clear lanza was heavily involved with violent video games. a large collection of games was discovered in the search of his home. investigators believe in the months before the attack, lanza spent countless hours alone in a basement gaming room with the windows blacked out. we also know now that lanza had blacked out the windows of his bedroom. scott he was a young man who sought complete isolation and who died without explaining his actions. >> pelley: bob, thank you very much. oscar pistorius the preliminary runner who shot his girlfriend to death claims it wasn't

murder. in a bail hearing today, pistorius said he couldn't even understand why he had been charged. pistorius is famous for running on prosthetic blades. he lost both legs as a child. emma hurd is following the case for us in pretoria, south africa. >> reporter: oscar pistorius told the court he was deeply in love with his girlfriend and never intended to kill her. his words read out by his lawyer. his family sobbed in the packed courtroom and pistorius one of the world's most famous athletes broke down in tears. according to an affidavit, pistorius said he had woken in the night convinces there was an intruder in the bathroom. he grabbed his gun and fired through the bathroom door thinking that reeva steenkamp was in their bed. when he realized she wasn't he said it filled him with horror and fear. but the prosecution argues that his tore use knew steenkamp was hiding in the bathroom after an argument and that he put on his artificial legs, walked 20 feet from the bedroom before opening

fire. the prosecution won the first round in court today. oscar pistorius will be charged with premeditated murder. the defense must show that there are exceptional circumstances to convince the judge to allow him out on bail. his lawyers argued over the manner of her death. reeva steenkamp was laid to rest in her hometown of port elizabeth. her uncle mike steenkamp spoke of his grief. >> reporter: the track star has earned millions over the years from his running career but now his sponsors are starting to desert him. he's a rich man but also a frightened one. he said he's received death threats which is why he was so quick to reach for his gun. in his affidavit oscar pistorius said the couple were deeply in love and couldn't be happier.

he said he knew reeva steenkamp felt the same way. at one point in the hearing he was so overcome with emotion that his whole body was shaking and the judge had to pause the proceedings. >> pelley: you're reporting from the police station there in pretoria. i wonder what happens next in this case? >> well, tonight oscar pistorius is still inside this police station in a private cell. but tomorrow is the bail hearing. if it doesn't go his way, he could end up in a south african jail. and the prisons here are dirty, dangerous and overcrowded. >> pelley: he'll try to make bail tomorrow if he can. emma, thank you very much. well, we are nine days now from the next national self-inflicted budget crisis. big across the board cuts in the federal budget will hit automatically on march 1. the cuts are designed to be so deep and damaging that they would force the president and

the congress to compromise on a better way. but they haven't. president obama had this warning today. >> so these cuts are not smart. they are not fair. they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment rolls. this is not an and traction. people will lose their jobs. the unemployment rate might tick up again. >> pelley: mr. obama wants more tax revenue. the republicans say no and each side said it's up to the other to give in. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. major, what next? >> well, the continued effort by the white house, scott, to apply public pressure on republicans to relent. this will be done in public to events like we saw today. it's already been done privately. top government officials are warning businesses they could be harmed by these looming spending cuts. here's one example we've learned. last friday top officials at the agriculture department warned meat and poultry producers that

there might not be enough federal inspectors to keep their processing plants open and operating. these are designed to motivate businesses to plead with republicans to find another way. for now republicans appear prepared to take these spending cuts because they say they will argue to the public they're more serious about deficit reduction than president obama. >> pelley: is there any reason to believe that there's progress behind the scenes? >> there are no behind-the-scenes negotiations that we are aware of, scott. as a matter of fact, republicans say this is president obama's problem. he needs to solve it with new spending cuts, alternative spending cuts because they refuse to raise taxes again this year. and as for talks, well, all we have are jokes on capitol hill. the top aide house majority leader eric cantor today said president obama has spent more time playing golf with tiger woods than he has been negotiating with congressional republicans. >> pelley: major, thank you very much. one of america's top generals made a surprising decision tod today. john allen, former commander in afghanistan, turned down the

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attack. the pair were beaten. the young woman was gang raped and violated with an iron rod and then both of them were thrown from the moving bus, naked and bleeding. "my love for my daughter was as deep as the ocean," he told us. "i want the men who did this to her to be hanged." badri nath singh works double shift as an airport baggage handler to buy a home in this poor neighborhood and to educate his children. now his wife asha sits alone in a darkened room. since her daughter's death two months ago she hasn't left the house. the crime sparked an outpouring of rage. thousands of protestors have taken to the streets, angry over what they say is an epidemic of harassment and violence against women. garima shrivastara organized some of the protests and told us that indian women live with fear

every day. >> i am a citizen of this country. i have a right to live as safely as any other man i would say. so why me? why a woman? what wrong have i done? >> reporter: activists like garima shrivastara say the violence is a clash between traditional values and a new generation of educated, modern women whose independence is threatening to some indian men. and now another taboo is being broken by survivors of rape who dare to speak out. this 16-year-old girl told us how she was gang raped last year by eight of her neighbors who filmed the attack on a cell phone. her father was so ashamed he commit suicide. how did you have the courage to speak out? "i come from an educated family, and i understand these things," she told us. "many other girls are too frightened, but i went to the police." the men accused of raping and

killing badri nath singh's daughter ra already on trial. their verdict could be months away. her terrible death have seen more and more indian women finding their voice and using it to shout out in anger. holy williams, cbs news, dehli, india. >> pelley: well, in europe overnight we were treated to the greatest show on earth courtesy of mount etna. look at this. the volcano in sicily lit up the sky with a spectacular eruption. mount etna is one of the most active volcanos in the world. the reason is far below the surface, the earth is broken where the european geo logic plate is grind against the plate that carries the african continent. fake cops steal real diamonds. we'll show you how they did it when we come back.

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u.s. lives. sculptor felix de weldon was so moved he used his own money to create it, finishing the 12-foot statue six months after the battle. the statue was displayed in front of the federal reserve building in washington during the late '40s but then the government asked weldon to build a 32-foot tall version the marine corps war memorial which sits just outside arlington national cemetery. the smaller one was forgotten until brown started working on de weldon's biography in 1990. where was it? >> it was in the backyard behind de weldon's studio in washington d.c. >> reporter: when you saw it, what did you think some. >> i said, this is a national treasure. we've got to get it out of here. it's got to be restored for the american people. >> reporter: brown offered de weldon a trade. the statue for a stradivarius violin, a silver trophy and some cash.

the statue was put on display aboard the u.s.s. intep id museum in new york until it was crated for storage. does it ever get old for you to look at? >> in fact i'm so happy it's been in a box for eight years. it's been all crated up. nobody could see it. >> reporter: this friday rodney brown is putting the statue up for auction. the auction house says it could fetch $1.8 million. >> i got to imagine there's at least a small part of you that doesn't want to let it go. >> but i can't enjoy it. it won't fit in my living room. i don't have an aircraft carrier. the flag has to be passed to a new generation now. >> reporter: a new generation that brown hopes will honor the sacrifice and valor of an older one immortalized in this american treasure. jim axel rod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night.

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